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Margo Wolowiec

(Detroit, Michigan, 1985 - )


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Margo Wolowiec captures the fluidity and erasure of digital imagery. Working predominately in handwoven textiles, she sources images from the internet and physically translates them into tactile, painterly distortions. Wolowiec creates what she terms “recipes” with hashtags and geolocations that mine social media platforms like Instagram and Tumblr to compile immense collections of digital imagery. Using a commercial sublimation dye process, Wolowiec transfers the images onto sets of loose polymer threads that she hand weaves on a wooden floor loom. Loss occurs in the shift from digital to physical—the original image slips in and out of focus as the woven threads both materialize and produce glitches in the image. Merging traditional handcraft and contemporary image making, Wolowiec’s tapestries embrace the medium’s association with storytelling and the indexical qualities of social media as archives of particular times and places.

At the intersection of painting, sculpture, textile, and installation, DBL_DBL2 is comprised of a freestanding steel frame and handwoven panel with overpainted red markings. The architectural armature references a doorframe, suggesting dualities within the work—legibility and illegibility, or back and front, as the viewer can view both sides of the weaving. The gestural red marks are painted on the reverse, typically hidden, side of the weaving and relate to X’s on photographic proof sheets indicating deletion. Intentionally revealed in this work, DBL_DBL2 makes visible the loss of the image.

This would be the first work by Wolowiec to enter the collection.

Biography
Born in 1985 in Detroit, Michigan, Margo Wolowiec received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and institutions including the 2014 exhibition Ones and Zeros, Di Rosa, Napa, CA and The Center for Performance Research, New York. Her work is in the collections of the Detroit Center for Photography and Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, as well as numerous private collections. She has lectured at Maryland Institute College of the Arts, Baltimore, and San Francisco State University. Wolowiec lives and works in New York. (acquisitions meeting November 6, 2017)


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